Sunday, 21 January 2024

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Maxi Loop: https://youtu.be/VehcRE8tEJE

We continue our tour through genres featured in this week's Puzzle Ramayan round. Whether today's puzzle should be considered Strange-Shaped depends on how strongly you believe that every Hitori should have numbers in every single cell. I personally think this convention is extremely silly, and while I haven't done the Puzzle Ramayan round myself yet, the gaps in the Hitori in the instruction booklet are giving me hope that the puzzles there do not obfuscate their interesting logic with lots of filler.

Round 1 of Puzzle Ramayan runs until Thursday, so there's still plenty of time to get yourself a fluffy bonus otter 🦦 by participating in the competition.

We've featured Hitori twice before:
- Archive: Monday, 31 January 2022 by Jovi
- Archive: Wednesday, 25 January 2023 by Tyrg

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No two cells in the same row or column containing the same number may both be unshaded.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Sparse Sparrow 🐦!

Example (puzz.link; puzzle by jovi, gaps by me): http://tinyurl.com/3yestfbs
Puzzle (puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/m2wbcz67